revisionism

English

Etymology

revision +‎ -ism

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvɪʒəˌnɪzəm/

Noun

revisionism (countable and uncountable, plural revisionisms)

1. (historiography) The advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events.
   • 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     As for Jones’s performance as Mandy Cohen, it united two leading facets of the funnyman’s repertoire: his fondness for female impersonation, and his passion for historical revisionism.

   • 2018, Anne Perkins, “A Dad’s Army-style Brexit looms. ‘Don’t panic!’”, in Guardian‎^[2]:

     Tories spent last week boldly whistling their unique brand of the kind of historical revisionism that has played a major part in getting us here.

2. (Marxism, derogatory) An evolutionary form of Marxism, abandoning some of its original principles.

Derived terms

• crypto-revisionism

Translations

advocacy of a revision of some view

• Albanian: revizionizëm (sq) m
• Arabic: تَعْدِيلِيَّة f (taʕdīliyya)
• Armenian: ռևիզիոնիզմ (hy) (ṙewizionizm)
• Azerbaijani: revizionizm
• Belarusian: рэвізіяні́зм m (revizijanízm)
• Bulgarian: ревизиони́зъм m (revizionízǎm)
• Catalan: revisionisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 修正主義／修正主义 (zh) (xiūzhèngzhǔyì)

• Czech: revizionismus m
• Danish: revisionisme c
• Dutch: revisionisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: revisionism (et)
• Finnish: revisionismi (fi), uudistusmielisyys
• French: révisionnisme (fr) m
• Galician: revisionismo m
• Georgian: რევიზიონიზმი (revizionizmi)
• German: Revisionismus m
• Greek: αναθεωρητισμός (el) m (anatheoritismós), ρεβιζιονισμός (el) m (revizionismós)
• Hungarian: revizionizmus (hu)
• Italian: revisionismo (it) m
• Japanese: 修正主義 (しゅうせいしゅぎ, shūseishugi)
• Kazakh: ревизионизм (revizionizm)
• Korean: 수정주의(修正主義) (sujeongjuui)
• Kyrgyz: ревизионизм (revizionizm)
• Latvian: revizionisms m
• Lithuanian: revizionizmas m
• Macedonian: ревизиони́зам m (revizionízam)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: revisjonisme m

• Persian: بازبینی (fa) (bâzbini), تجدیدنظرطلبی (fa) (tajdid-nazar-talabi)
• Polish: rewizjonizm m
• Portuguese: revisionismo (pt) m
• Romanian: revizionism (ro) n
• Russian: ревизиони́зм (ru) m (revizionízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ревизионѝзам m

  Roman: revizionìzam (sh) m

• Slovak: revizionizmus m
• Slovene: revizionizem m
• Spanish: revisionismo m
• Swedish: revisionism (sv) c
• Tajik: ревизионизм (revizionizm)
• Turkish: revizyonizm (tr)
• Turkmen: rewizionizm
• Ukrainian: ревізіоні́зм m (revizionízm)
• Uzbek: revizionizm (uz)
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa xét lại
• Welsh: adolygiaeth f

form of Marxism

• Armenian: ռեւիզիոնիզմ (hy) (ṙewizionizm)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 修正主義／修正主义 (zh) (xiūzhèngzhǔyì)

• Finnish: revisionismi (fi)
• French: révisionnisme (fr) m (often derogatory)
• Kazakh: ревизионизм (revizionizm)
• Kyrgyz: ревизионизм (revizionizm)
• Russian: ревизиони́зм (ru) m (revizionízm)
• Spanish: revisionismo m
• Swedish: revisionism (sv) c
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa xét lại

Swedish

Noun

revisionism c

1. (historiography) revisionism
2. (Marxism, derogatory) revisionism

Declension

Declension of revisionism
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	revisionism	revisionismen	—	—
Genitive	revisionisms	revisionismens	—	—

Derived terms

• historierevisionism

Related terms

• revidera
• revision

References

• revisionism in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• revisionism in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• revisionism in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)